A recent hack of a Utah medical radiology group's network server has compromised sensitive health information of more than a half-million individuals, ranking the incident among the 20 largest health data breaches posted on the federal tally so far this year. What are the risks to patients?
U.S. federal banking regulators have approved a new rule that will require banks to notify regulators no later than 36 hours after the organization determines it has suffered a qualifying "computer-security incident," the nation's top financial agencies announced this week.
In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss important cybersecurity issues, including the status of the recommendations of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission today and what still needs to be enacted by the current Congress, addressing the increasing challenge of cyberattacks...
A Portsmouth, Ohio-based hospital is still struggling to fully recover - continuing to cancel and postpone various patient care services - one week after it revealed that hackers had gained access to some of its servers in what appeared to be a "targeted cyberattack."
The specter of the May attack on Ireland's national health service loomed large at the IRISSCON 2021 cybercrime conference in Dublin, as cybersecurity experts gathered to detail the ongoing rise of ransomware and other types of online crime, as well as how to best combat such attacks.
Chipmaker Intel has issued a security advisory for two high-severity vulnerabilities in the BIOS reference code in Intel processors that may allow privilege escalation attacks. The vulnerabilities have a high CVSS v3 score of 8.2.
Hacker group MosesStaff has targeted Israeli organizations with encryption attacks, according to Check Point researchers. Archived records show that at least 16 organizations - including the Israel Post, the Ministry of Defense and Israeli Intelligence Corps Unit 8200 - were targeted.
CISA this week issued playbooks for incident and vulnerability response, providing federal civilian agencies with a standard set of procedures to both respond to incidents and address vulnerabilities on government networks.
The Singapore Personal Data Protection Commission has fined Commeasure Pte. Ltd., which operates hotel booking platform RedDoorz, S$74,000 - or U.S. $54,637 - for what the commission called the "largest data breach" since its inception in 2012, which put at risk 5.9 million customer records.
Federal authorities have issued alerts about security vulnerabilities identified in medical device products from manufacturers Siemens and Philips. The two advisories cover 13 flaws in Siemens' Nucleus Real-Time Operating System TCP/IP stack and three issues in certain Philips MRI products.
New Jersey state regulators have smacked two vendors with a hefty financial settlement and corrective action plan for their involvement in a 2016 printing and mailing mishap that compromised the health information of nearly 56,000 residents.
Two recently reported hacking incidents - each affecting tens of thousands of individuals - serve as contrasting examples of the wide range of time and difficulty it takes for some entities to determine and report protected health information breaches.
A criminal hack attack has disrupted healthcare in Canada's easternmost province and resulted in the theft of patient information and personal details for healthcare employees. The province of Newfoundland and Labrador disclosed the apparent ransomware attack on Oct. 30, and has yet to restore all systems.
MediaMarktSaturn Retail group, a German multinational chain of stores, has confirmed to ISMG that it has suffered a ransomware attack. It is reported that the attack was perpetrated by threat group Hive and has affected store operations in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
Trading platform Robinhood says an attacker gained access to its customer support system last week, stole 7 million individuals' names and email addresses and tried to extort the company. More personal details were also stolen for a much smaller group of customers.
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